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City unveils multi-year fleet plan to smooth replacements and reduce spikes in vehicle spending
Summary
Fleet and utility staff outlined a multi-year replacement schedule meant to avoid large single-year spikes in vehicle spending and minimize debt; utility vehicle replacement projected at about $6 million annually if fully self-funded.
Robert Woolley, fleet and facilities manager, presented a new fleet replacement strategy aimed at ‘‘smoothing’’ annual expenditures to avoid years with large, one-time spikes in vehicle purchases. Woolley told the council many municipal vehicles are well past useful life; several were 9–15 years old and some ‘‘almost 2 years past its useful life.’’
Why it matters: unpredictably large replacement years can force the city to seek debt financing or suddenly divert scarce…
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